Gardiner’s Sign List of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The following is a list of commonly used hieroglyphs as organized by Sir Alan H. Gardiner in his Egyptian Grammar. The signs are organized into 26 main categories followed by 3 sections that list hieroglyphs by their shape. Choose from any of the links below to guide yourself to a specific category.

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N. Sky, Earth, Water

Gardiner Number	Hieroglyph	Description of Glyph	Details
N1		Sky	Det. or Ideo. pt “sky,” ḥrt “heaven,” ḥry “above.”
N2		Sky with broken S40	Det. or Ideo. grḥ “night.”
N3		Var. of N2	Use as N2.
N4		Sky with rain	Det. or Ideo. šnyt “rain,” i3dt “dew.”
N5		Sun	Ideo. rʿ “sun, Re” hrw “day,” sw “day.”
N6		Sun with uraeus	Det. or ideo in rʿ “sun, Re.”
N7		Combination of N5 + T28	Det. ẖrt-hrw “daytime.”
N8		Sun with rays	Phono. wbn. Det. or Ideo. 3ḫw “sunshine,” psḏ “shine,” wbn “rise.”
N9		Moon	Phono. psḏ. In psḏt “Ennead.”
N10		Var of N9	Use as N9.
N11		Crescent moon	Ideo. 3bd “month.” Det. iʿḥ “moon.”
N12		Var. of N11	Det.iʿḥ “moon.”
N13		Combination of half of N11 and N14	Ideo. mḏdiwnt “half month festival.”
N14		Star	Phono sb3, dw3. In sb3 “star,” dw3 “morning.” Ideo. wnwt “hour.”
N15		Star encircled	Ideo. in dw3t “netherworld.”
N16		Flat land with grain	Phono. t3. In t3 “land, earth.”Det. in ḏt “eternity.”
N17		Var. of N16	Use as N16.
N18		Strip of sand	Ideo. in iw “island.”
N19		Two strips of sand	Ideo. in 3ḫt “horizon,” ḥrw-3ḫty “Horakhty.”
N20		Tongue of land	Phono. wḏb. In wḏb “shore.” Det. in ḥ3b-sd “Sed Festival.”
N21		Tongue of land	Ideo. in idb “bank,” idbwy “two banks.”
N22		Tongue of land	Det. in ʿḥt “field,” sḫt “field.”
N23		Canal	Det. in t3 “land,” i3š “boundary.”
N24		Irrigation canal system	Det. or Ideo. in sp3t “nome.”
N25		Mountain rande	Ideo. in ḫ3st “foreign land, hill country.”
N26		Mountain	Phono. ḏw “mountain.”
N27		Sunrise over mountain	Ideo. in 3ḫt “horizon.”
N28		Hill with sun rays	Phono. ḫʿ. In ḫʿ “appear.”
N29		Sandy slope	Phono. q.
N30		Hill with shrubs	Det. or Ideo. in i3t “mound.”
N31		Road bordered by shrubs	Det. and Ideo. in w3t “road.”
N32		Lump of clay, Var. Aa2 and F52.	Det. in sin “clay.”
N33		Grain of sand	Det. in nbw “gold.”
N34		Metal Ingot	Ideo. in bi3, ḥmt “copper.”
N35		Water ripple	Phono. n.
N35a		Three ripples	Phono. mw. In mw “water.”
N36		Canal	Phono. mr. In mr “canal.”
N37		Pool	Phono. š. In š “pool.”
N38		Var. of N37	Use as N37.
N39		Var. of N37	Use as N37.
N40		Combination of N37 and D54	Phono. šm. In šm “to go.”
N41		Well with water	Phono. ḥm. In ḥmt “wife.” Det. in bi3 “copper.”
N42		Var. of N41	Use as N41.